Her mother who was so supportive of her initial desire for a make-over, lashes out at her daughter with anger and hatred, and her father…well this is a hentai series…. Saki’s decent becomes crueler and harder, her friends turn their backs on their, labeling her a slut and whore. Soon drugs (a VERYtaboo subject in Japan) are introduced and the party gets wilder. The transformation is slow, steadily taking place over the series 225 page length, starting out with Saki having the courage to have some fun, and then a little bit more, then a little bit more. Saki’s encounters with Hayato which form the backbone of the series, and her decent from a sheltered and shy woman, to a pathetic, dying and defiled crack-whore are what give Emergenceit’s name. Emergence shows the dark side of what can happen. That desire to change is a real emotion that everyone has had at least once. However none of ever descended into the very bowels of darkness that happens in Emergence. Sometimes it was for the better, and other times it left them worse off, becoming people I know longer recognized. I’ve seen men and women who, after putting more care into how they look, dress and act suddenly become completely transformed by the attention and views they are given. Those are real things, they happen in the real world, and they happen to real people. It’s something we may have seen time in again in after-school specials and sitcoms, but they are there for a reason. A beautiful swan hiding under the ugly duckling, the thrill of power and happiness that comes with sudden popularity, the need to keep that feeling going, the pressures of trying to “fit in”, and the self hatred that can come from it. Saki’s desire to change herself upon entering high school is somethings that countless young girls have experienced. If Emergencedoes one thing right (aside from the hentai aspect), it is how it pulls the reader into this world with its depiction of problems that absolutely happen in real life. With this newfound confidence in herself, Saki thinks High School will be nothing but fun times, until one day she comes across a young man name Hayato who invites her to Karaoke, and her life changes forever. A bit of make-up and a hair cut later, and we see Saki as a new girl, beautiful, pleasant and already becoming popular. The story follows Saki Yoshida, a young girl whom upon entering High School decides to do away with her meek, milquetoast appearance and try to reinvent herself as a new woman. What makes Saki is effective for readers, is that her initial appearance is so similar to ‘real’ anime characters. Emergenceand it’s author ShindoL have decided to tell a story about what happen when a shy young girl decides to better herself, and just how horribly, horribly it can go wrong. Even in hentai where “good girl goes bad” is a part of the genre and is always considered just a bit tongue in cheek. Now hold on, not ‘bad’ as in this is not a good story, or well written or even well drawn, but bad as in Emergenceis a story about bad things happening to a presumed good person. It’s become a bit of a meme among the online anime community because of this, but I wanted to actually sit down and look at the series with fresh serious eyes, to judge it based on what it is, not what people have made it to be. People loved it for it’s shock value and dark depressing story, or people HATED it for those same reasons. When Emergencefirst hit the public anime eye, it was either treated two different ways. THERE IS SOME SERIOUSLY UNSETTLING AND NSFW SHIT UP AHEAD. Others call it 177013, I’m going to call it by it’s real title: Emergence ((THIS IS A HENTAI MANGA, AND NOT A HAPPY ONE. Join me after the cut as I dive into the hentai manga with three different names. Without further ado, the series I thought I would NEVER talk about on this blog. This is going to be the “fun’ part of the post, because after this, it’s time to get serious. However I wanted to start off the year with a bang, with something to really get the blood flowing. We’ve got the Summer of Love Part II, dives into the light novels of Goblin Slayer and more, along with more of everything at people here love (or tolerate). Suck it Crow! You thought it was gonna be Chivalry of a Failed Knight!Ģ020 is here, and I’ve got a bunch of things planned for Shallow Dives in Anime.
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